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What's new at GoodBarber? December 2017

Head of Frontend Engineering

  Updated   4 min read

This month we focused on your app's central point: the Modular Home.
With the goals of widening your range of options and allowing you to create the perfect home screen for your app always in mind, we worked on 3 new widgets that will open the doors in terms of engagement, user experience, and design. 

The Newsletter Widget

This widget allows your users to let you know they want to sign up for your newsletter. They just need to enter their email address in the dedicated field, and on your side, you just have to transfer the list of interested users to the platform you manage your newsletter from. 

The Search Widget (PWA)

If you want your Progressive Web App to be even more intuitive, this new release will be of interest to you, as it allows you to give your users the option to perform searches within your content in just one click. The search is done directly from your app's Home–in other words, upon entering into the application. 

The Separator Widget (PWA)

Here we're getting into the design side, with this module that allows you to integrate separators between different widgets into your Home, giving you a multitude of possibilities in terms of the architecture of your PWA's home. 

General

  • Home section
    • New Newsletter widget released
    • New Search widget released (only for PWA's)
    • New Separator widget released (only for PWA's) 

Back office

  • App preview
    • Fixed an issue that prevented font editing from working properly
  • Article editing
    • Fixed some issues that occurred when adding a new article to a section for which automatic push notifications were scheduled
  • SMS notifications
    • Added subscriber management 
    • Added the option to add the number of the sender from the application's country 
    • Fixed an issue that occurred when adding an extra push quota
  • Other fixes and improvements
    • Fixed an issue that forced you to rebuild the app when adding an add-on

Progressive Web App

  • Home section
    • In the "Split" widget template, fixed an issue that caused the widget to be displayed above the header
    • In the "Small Carousel" and "Big Carousel" link widget templates, fixed a problem that caused the action buttons to be missing on iOS
    • In the "Banner Visible" widget template, fixed a display issue on IE11
  • Video section
    • In template 2, fixed an issue that prevented certain videos from being displayed
  • Map section 
    • Fixed an issue that prevented the transparent background from working
    • Fixed an issue that caused map points on mobile and tablet to be unclickable
    • Fixed an issue that caused the wrong title to be displayed in the header
  • Plugin section
    • Fixed an issue that prevented the scroll from working on iOS
  • Little Swipe navigation mode
    • Fixed several problems related to the "alwaysOpen" JSON property
  • Internal Ad Server add-on
    • Fixed an issue that prevented the banner from taking up the entire width of the screen 
    • Fixed an issue causing the banner to be misplaced in the detail view
  • Community add-on
    • Fixed an issue that prevented certain users from being displayed on the map
  • Other fixes and improvements
    • Fixed an issue preventing the background image from being displayed in the header
    • Fixed an issue that caused button background colors to disappear
    • Fixed an issue that caused the wrong color to be displayed on links in content in detail views

Native iOS app

  • General
    • Updated the Google Analytics SDK to version 3.17. Remarketing and Advertising Reporting features are now enabled
  • Home section
    • The Ad widgets click is now working
  • Articles section
    • Fixed an issue that caused the wrong category to be opened when clicking on a category link
    • Fixed an issue that caused a 404 page to appear on comments when the user arrived via a push notification 
  • Events section
    • Fixed an issue that caused the "Browse website" label to be truncated
  • Menu section
    • Fixed a problem that caused icons to be hidden in template 8
  • QR code section
    • Fixed an issue that caused a white screen to appear after reading a QR code
  • Little Swipe navigation mode
    • Fixed an issue that caused gradient backgrounds to be stretched
  • External ad networks add-on
    • MobFox : fixed an issue that caused the app to freeze when the SDK wasn't responding 
  • Other fixes and improvements
    • Fixed an issue that caused a crash when sharing an item

Native Android app

  • General
    • Updated the Google Analytics SDK to version 3.17. Remarketing and Advertising Reporting features are now enabled
    • The transparency effect in the header now works with a gradient background
  • Home section
    • In the Photo widget, Visual template, fixed an issue that caused images to be missing
  • Map section
    • The header disappearance adjusted has been improved in detail views
  • Sound section
    • Fixed an issue that caused the app to crash when an invalid album cover image was present
  • About section
    • In template 3, title margins are now adjusted when there is no cover image
  • Loyalty Card add-on
    • ​Fixed a bug causing an unwanted advertisement to appear after a QR code scan
  • Other fixes and improvements 
    • Fixed an issue that caused ("null") to be displayed when no title is set
    • In the embedded web browser, YouTube videos are now opened in the native player

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